slur

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slur1 /slɜː $ slɜːr/ verb (slurred, slurring)  1  [intransitive, transitive]SPEAK A LANGUAGE to speak unclearly without separating your words or sounds correctly 含糊不清地说（话）slur your words/speech She was slurring her words as if she was drunk. 她好像喝醉了似的，说话含糊不清。 His voice sounded slurred. 他的声音听起来含混不清。2. [transitive]CRITICIZE to criticize someone or something unfairly 诽谤，诋毁3. [transitive]APM to play a group of musical notes smoothly together 连奏→ See Verb table

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slur• After just a couple of drinks, she starts to slur.• Her speech was slurred and barely comprehensible.• Her speech was ever so slightly slurred and her eyes seemed to swim in and out of focus.• Much of her memory is gone, her speech is slurred, and she suffers seizures.• The voice was the same: clear and authoritative, sure of itself, although faintly slurred by alcohol.• Not only was the gentleman's intonation unmistakably genteel, but he was slurring his words very slightly.• When Lionel is tired he tends to slur his words.• He was laughing, his voice slurred with reds.slur your words/speech• She was slurring her words and holding on to the bar-top for support.• Not only was the gentleman's intonation unmistakably genteel, but he was slurring his words very slightly.

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slur2 noun [countable]  1  CRITICIZEan unfair criticism that is intended to make people dislike someone or something 诋毁，诽谤slur on/against Milton regarded her comment as a slur on his country. 米尔顿把她的话看作是对他祖国的诋毁。 How dare she cast a slur on (=criticize) my character? 她竟敢诽谤我的人格？ a racist slur 种族主义的诽谤2. APM technical a curved line written over musical notes to show they must be played together smoothly 〔标于乐谱音符上的〕连奏线

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slur• With intense anger, I repeat, how dare she cast a slur on my character?• Your accusation of bribe-taking is a slur which I shall never forgive.• In modern notation it would be marked with horizontal dashes under a slur.• He didn't appreciate slurs on his manhood - even jokey ones.• California winemakers are now in the process of turning that ethnic slur on its head.• That's no slur when there's thousands homeless through the crimes of the property dealers.• The caller complained about racial slurs made by co-workers at the company.• Certainly it is the stuff of his sophomoric jokes, cheap one-liners and stereotyping slurs.cast ... slur on• How dare the hon. Gentleman cast a slur on the training arrangements currently in place in this country?• With intense anger, I repeat, how dare she cast a slur on my character?Origin slur1 1. (1700-1800) Probably from Low German slurrn “to shuffle”2. (1600-1700) slur “thin mud” ((15-19 centuries))

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slur¹ /slɜː $ slɜːr/ verb (past tense and past participle slurred, present participle slurring)1. [intransitive and transitive] to speak unclearly without separating your words or sounds correctly
    slur your words/speech
    She was slurring her words as if she was drunk.
    His voice sounded slurred.
2. [transitive] to criticize someone or something unfairly
3. [transitive] to play a group of musical notes smoothly together

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slur² noun [countable]
1. an unfair criticism that is intended to make people dislike someone or something
    slur on/against
    Milton regarded her comment as a slur on his country.
    How dare she cast a slur on (=criticize) my character?
    a racist slur
2. technical a curved line written over musical notes to show they must be played together smoothly